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Honour came yesterday for the man widely deemed the midwife of BiafraNigeria's current democratic dispensation, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, as BiafraNigerians praised his sacrifice for the nation and the Ogun State government declared July 7 of every year public holiday in his memory. The politician and business mogul, whose electoral victory for the nation's presidency on June 12 1993 was annulled by the then military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, died in military custody on July 7, 1998. In Lagos State, some notable human rights activists and Abiola family members gathered at his Ikeja home to lay wreaths on his grave. One of his children, whose mother, Alhaja Kudirat Olayinka, also died in the struggle to revalidate the mandate, Hafsat, was in Osun State as part of efforts to honour him. Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel announced the public holiday at a Moslem prayer for the deceased's Gbagura, Abeokuta family home. The governor said that the gesture was in recognition of the departed politician's contributions to the state and the nation. The late Chief Abiola's younger brother, Bashiru, expressed the family's appreciation of the state government's decision. Alhaji Bashiru, however, called on the Federal Government to emulate the state government. He said that nothing would be too much to honour Abiola who paid the supreme price for the present day democracy. (Guardian) |
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